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Rust-Based, Memory-Safe PNG Decoders "Vastly Outperform" C-Based PNG Libraries

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 22:05
Video and image encoders/decoders written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees is often viewed as one of the compelling areas for the programming language to better protect against malformed/malicious content especially within web browsers. Not only are Rust-based PNG image decoders proving to be more secure than C-based decoders, but the performance of the Rust solutions can be even faster...

The 2024 LLVM Developers’ Meeting Videos Now Online

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 21:36
For those wishing to kick off the new week with some interesting technical videos and are into compiler tech, the video recordings from the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting are now online...

ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 19:48
For those with the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS as a ~$230 USD AM5 motherboard for Ryzen 7000/9000 series processors, this desktop motherboard is seeing support tacked onto the asus-ec-sensors hardware monitoring driver so you can enjoy working sensor readings under Linux...

Glibc 2.41 Adds C23's sinpi / cospi / tanpi Functions

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 19:36
Ahead of the GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release due out around early February, more C23 features are being finished up. The latest crossing the finish line is support for C23's sinpi, cospi, and tanpi trigonometric functions...

openSUSE Touts Improved Multi-GPU Switching Support

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 19:19
Te openSUSE project shared today that there is enhanced multi-GPU switching support to enjoy now with openSUSE Linux...

Raspberry Pi 500 Launches Along With Raspberry Pi Monitor

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 18:51
Launched four years ago was the Raspberry Pi 400 as the Raspberry Pi 4 adapted for a keyboard form factor. Launching today is the Raspberry Pi 500 for upgrading that keyboard computer using the Raspberry Pi 5 internals. An official Raspberry Pi Monitor was also released...

December 9, 2024 - Hackaday

Google News - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 17:00
December 9, 2024  Hackaday

Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 06:16
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window...

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